Quotes about Sacrifice
On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
— Judges 6:25
Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”
— Judges 6:26
“We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.
— Judges 8:25
But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’
— Judges 9:11
for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
— Judges 9:17
He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So Abimelech’s armor-bearer ran his sword through him, and he died.
— Judges 9:54
Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,
— Judges 11:30
then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
— Judges 11:31
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
— Judges 11:34
As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”
— Judges 11:35
“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
— Judges 11:36
“Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”
— Judges 13:15